This reminds me of the good old days of Facebook and the massive protests by users whenever they made any UI updates, including all the "bring back the old Facebook" groups. Users never like changes, but like always they'll get used to it and eventually talk about how good this interface was when the next change comes around.
The New Facebook Design Sucks
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#12It is horrible, but I wonder if it’s not designed to push more use into mobile. If they get more data and better ads conversion from mobile, the desktop friction may be financially beneficial.
Mobile Facebook is a mess, they’re so far down the RN rabbit hole, supporting dark mode is a huge chore.
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#13I don't know why but i'm still on the old interface.
Facebook almost always has a long-term holdout group in experiments like this to make sure that any gains from the design change aren't just short-lived blips from the novelty factor that ultimately result in long-term regressions.
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#14I love the new design because it make me use fb less often
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#15The reality is while there's a vocal minority, and that it may be subjectively worse, the design was absolutely A/B tested and performed better in whatever KPI's Facebook chose as their goals (such as ad revenue, session length, engagement metrics). That's the simple answer. Full disclosure: I haven't logged on Facebook much in the past couple years.
>session length
I certainly hope they didn't use this metric... I can't find anything anymore so of course it takes me longer! I still struggle to find things under Microsoft's "new" Office ribbon...
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#16I'm apparently in the minority here, but I opted into this beta a long while ago, toggled dark mode, and haven't missed the old interface at all. I don't care about scrolling and I think it's cleaner. To each their own I suppose.
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#17People always complain about new layouts because we don't like change. The change didn't bother me much this time around. I switched to the new layout 4-6 months ago, turned on dark mode and never looked back. Facebook has always had a confusing interface, it feels easier to use nowadays. Then again all I do is check out groups and use messenger so I'm not exactly a Facebook power user.
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#18These unwanted forced design changes will be one of the main drivers of everyone off-platforming to their own social network.
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#19I don't know why but i'm still on the old interface.
Facebook almost always has a long-term holdout group in experiments like this to make sure that any gains from the design change aren't just short-lived blips from the novelty factor that ultimately result in long-term regressions.
I understand but, they announced that it would disappear in September. We are at the end of October.
Considering the feedback, I'm quite happy to be still on the old version.
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#20Don't really agree with the criticism, to me the interface feels cleaner and less cluttered.
>It’s confusing and feels very “oversized.”
I don't see how it's confusing. Contacts on the right, navigation bar at the top, Groups, friends and so on on the left, feed in the middle, all visually separated.
>Of the 5 main giant buttons (navigation icons) at the top of the page, none of them are notifications — arguably the single most-used button and the one I need most.
This I don't understand at all because for me the second button from the right in the top bar literally is the notification button.
I also absolutely don't mind that things take up more space or are larger because it improves readability. I don't think scrolling is bad in any way, packing more things on the same space is not good design just because you make things denser, if that was the case we wouldn't use paragraphs in text, and scrolling on the web is free. I'm actually glad that pages move away from stuffing everything onto one page like the early web, as if we only had one sheet of paper.